Hi guys and thanks for a fantastic job so far. I finally decided to remove my nVidia card and try this setup with the onboard gfx (I'm on a ASUS E35M1-M mobo). I have followed the guidelines in this thread and it works, sort of but I experience some problems (both with the initial setup yesterday and the new binaries today after an apt-get update).

First of all, is there a python-simplejson dependency? I noticed some error messages in the log initially generated by the weather plugin. It was complaining about an simplejson import error. A "sudo apt-get install python-simplejson" took care of that problem.

The rest is a bit more problematic. It seems like xbmc always crash on boot and then another instance seems to get respawned. I guess this is what happens becuase it takes quite some time before the xbmc ui shows up after a reboot and there is always a new xbmc_crashlog-xxxxxxxx_xxxxxx.log in ~ and the content is the same as in ~/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.old.log. Some of the errors are also in the running instances ~/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log, anyone got something similar in their log files? Error lines from the crashlog:

fritsch Wrote:Does it work, if you switch the mode in xfwm before and just leave it untouched in xbmc?

I'll check this as soon as possible, right now I'm in the middle of an upgrade process to Ubuntu 10.10 (thought it might be good to come as close as possible to the reference system of the OP). I think xbmc accepts whatever it's presented, just the switching doesn't work, but I'll report back asap. Anyway it's good to know this is supposed to work!

EmuMannen Wrote:Hi guys and thanks for a fantastic job so far. I finally decided to remove my nVidia card and try this setup with the onboard gfx (I'm on a ASUS E35M1-M mobo). I have followed the guidelines in this thread and it works, sort of but I experience some problems (both with the initial setup yesterday and the new binaries today after an apt-get update).

First of all, is there a python-simplejson dependency? I noticed some error messages in the log initially generated by the weather plugin. It was complaining about an simplejson import error. A "sudo apt-get install python-simplejson" took care of that problem.

The rest is a bit more problematic. It seems like xbmc always crash on boot and then another instance seems to get respawned. I guess this is what happens becuase it takes quite some time before the xbmc ui shows up after a reboot and there is always a new xbmc_crashlog-xxxxxxxx_xxxxxx.log in ~ and the content is the same as in ~/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.old.log. Some of the errors are also in the running instances ~/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log, anyone got something similar in their log files? Error lines from the crashlog:

can you try this please:
edit /etc/security/limits.conf
add following line at the end of the file:

Code:

xbmc - nice -1

this should get rid of the Permission denied errors.

and thanks for reporting the missing python dependency.

about the crashes @boot. This probably has nothing to do with xvba, but its interesting and probably annoying nonetheless.
Maybe xbmc is being started too soon. Could you pastebin one of those crash logs?

wsnipex Wrote:can you try this please:
edit /etc/security/limits.conf
add following line at the end of the file:

Code:

xbmc - nice -1

this should get rid of the Permission denied errors.

and thanks for reporting the missing python dependency.

about the crashes @boot. This probably has nothing to do with xvba, but its interesting and probably annoying nonetheless.
Maybe xbmc is being started too soon. Could you pastebin one of those crash logs?

Thanks for your swift reply wsnipex, the added line in /etc/security/limits.conf took care of the permission denied errors

Funny thing is that the boot splash newer show up during boot, only when taking down the system (call reboot or shutdown from xbmc will show the xbmc boot splash while taking down the system). Thats why I'm a bit suspicious regarding the custom boot splash...

But thanks a lot for your help (i might install gdb anyway just to get the backtrace if I run into problems in the future). Wonder whats broke with the webserver and zeroconf on my system (or is it broke in general)?

But thanks a lot for your help (i might install gdb anyway just to get the backtrace if I run into problems in the future). Wonder whats broke with the webserver and zeroconf on my system (or is it broke in general)?

You're not that special
I get this too.
Installed gdb too, so I can help you guys further.
Actually, according to the message it seems as a known issue that was marked for a fix.

FYI, I am not using sound over HDMI and the following lines in ~/.asoundrc fixes the error log entry "ERROR: Unable to open audio mixer" on my E35M1-M mobo (telling ALSA to use sound card 1 instead of default 0).

Quote:But i have one question, how can i enable the "pause" button for live tv ? this was working while i was using the builds from pulse eight.

PVR does not support time shift and skin confluence disables this button. This is the also the behavior when building pvr from the git repo. Not sure if the pulse eight build has any modifications to this.